This blog magnetized zero visitors until I set categories and tags for each entry. Curious that tags and categories would be so critical to blog distribution and so little discussed by blog publishing software vendors.
Consider that this blog is published with Movable Type. I couldn't find anything in the Movable Type documentation that highlighted the importance of tags (and categories) to my objective of getting my blog content distributed online. Only when I googled
movable type documentation tags blog distribution
did I come up with an entry from the Movable Type Developer Documentation dated June 8, 2005 where Brad Choate comments
"Today's "Tags" are yesterday's "Keywords". I'm a big fan of metadata and use it extensively both on and off the net. Being able to reference sets of data using a tag or two is extremely powerful. I'm glad to see services like del.icio.us, Flickr and Technorati that are promoting and making use of it as they are."
Yes sir. I wonder how many other folks who want to distribute content online have stumbled around not realizing that setting tags and content for entries is critical.
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